find words and change

**todd2006** · todd2006, June 27th, 2008 11:59 AM

Hi,

If someone enters High School in a text box i want to make it H.S.

If someone enters university in a textbox I want to make it Unv

I tried the replace function in javascript but i think i messed it up somewhere

Any idea

todd

**richyrich** · richyrich, June 27th, 2008 12:03 PM

Could you post your code?

And how are you calling the JS function?

**mehere** · mehere, June 27th, 2008 12:03 PM

for one, post your code. for two, what if they type in Univ ... or College or etc. well, hopefully you get what i'm getting at. why not use a drop down box so that they will always be what you want them to be.

**todd2006** · todd2006, July 1st, 2008 05:55 PM

hi,
this is the code i have

Code:

if (getinstnamemem.length > 0)
{
getinstnamemem=getinstnamemem.replace("High School", "H.S.");
getinstnamemem=getinstnamemem.replace("University", "Unv");
}

but if someone enters university it doesnt change it to Unv

can someone tell me how i can make it happen

todd

**Wolffy** · Wolffy, July 2nd, 2008 09:58 AM

There is really no good way to do what you are trying to do. The number of permutations are almost infinite, even if you upper or lower case the string prior to doing the replace:
High School
High School
High School
University
Univ.
Univ
are all different.

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